This 88% decrease erodes market stability and reduces options for consumers.While Xcel has offered to increase its REC price to $1/watt, they could lower this at any point, putting the solar industry at risk. This is obviously very concerning.

All of us have worked hard to make Colorado a national leader in clean energy. Creating a stable marketplace is key to economic growth and job creation.

We need to work together to address this challenge head on.

Why is that we are a country of “out of sight out of mind” attitude?  Over the holiday season, I was driving back and forth from Colorado Springs to Pueblo West, I could not help but notice all of the beautiful light displays in every neighborhood I drove by.  At some point I recalled several conversations last year at this time when several of my friends started to receive their electric bills for those light displays. The good news is as I was driving by those homes I noticed more solar powered systems.

It seems to me that more people are becoming aware of the long term benefits of solar. Not only for the summer to help with those crippling cooling bills, but how a solar system really is beneficial all year long.

So when those holiday bills start to arrive, please keep in mind that there is a solution. If you have any questions or would like just to see how Solar is beneficial for your life. Please contact us 719.547.2929 or www.info@yessolarsolutions.com.

Funding will be available for the 2011 Colorado Springs Solar rebate program beginning in January.

FROM THE COLORADO SPRINGS UTILITIES WEB SITE.

Bringing clean, renewable energy to our community is everyone’s responsibility, and we want to help you do your part. Solar electric panels, or photovoltaics, convert the renewable energy of the sun into useful electricity that is pollution-free and avoids burning fossil fuels.

Our Renewable Energy Rebate supports and encourages the installation of solar PV generating systems at homes and businesses. Solar energy helps protect the environment, diversifies our energy supply, creates energy independence and reduces our summer peak capacity requirements.

Business and residential customers are eligible for a $3.00 per watt rebate. Combined with federal tax credits for solar (30 percent of the system cost), the rebate makes PV an attractive energy solution. Depending on the installation, 40 to 60 percent of the total system cost could be covered by rebates and tax credits.

Complete details about the program and the application process are available in the GEO Web site.

In partnership with the Governor’s Energy Office, rebates are available for residential and commercial solar thermal and wind. Check the GEO Web site for information.

FROM THE COLORADO SPRINGS UTILITIES WEB SITE.

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Call us today for a FREE Consultation, estimate and home inspection to determine exactly what you need to meet your Solar wants, needs and desires.

We can help! Call us today at 719.547.2929

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Colorado’s environment, our energy independence, and our economy are in jeopardy.

This is real folks, and the consequences have devastating potential. 

Please help us show Black Hills Energy how strongly Coloradoans feel about Renewable Energy.

Please follow the link below to help make a difference right now.

http://www.coseia.org/newsite/black-hills.html

Read more about the future of solar:

http://www.cnn.com/2010/TECH/05/12/solar.energy.iea.report/index.html?iref=allsearch

Read more:

http://www.chieftain.com/news/local/article_b6e5fc74-5e53-11df-b7fa-001cc4c03286.html

Pueblo schools are receiving grants to teach students about renewable energy.  Pueblo Central and Bessemer Academy will become magnet schools.

Read the full article about solar energy in the Pueblo Schools now.

Just in case that one doesn’t open here is the full article.

http://m.chieftain.com/news/local/article_21ef7fca-4470-11df-a31f-001cc4c002e0.html

Sponsored by Reps. Sal Pace, D-Pueblo, and Randy Fischer, D-Fort Collins, HB1349 authorizes state parks to generate more renewable energy than they use. It proposes first to use federal stimulus dollars to conduct a feasibility study that identifies which parks are best suited for the task.

Black Hills Energy and Lake Pueblo State Park officials have been conducting discussions about a wind-power station at the park, because existing transmission lines nearby are accessible and could accommodate the additional load. However, the talks are in the early stages and several obstacles remain. Finding a third party to develop the project and HB1349 becoming law are two of them.

Opponents argued that the parks would compete with private industry under the terms of the bill, which would allow production of 120 percent as much energy as the parks consume, with the overage available to be sold to utilities.

Pace and other backers touted the proposal as a boost to the state’s new-energy economy that would help utility companies to meet the 30-percent renewable-energy minimum imposed by the Legislature this session that takes effect in 10 years.

The House passed the bill on a 39-26 vote. Among the Southern Colorado delegation, Pace and Reps. Buffie McFadyen, D-Pueblo West, Wes McKinley, D-Walsh, and Ed Vigil, D-Fort Garland, voted in favor. Reps. Tom Massey, R-Poncha Springs, and Bob Gardner, R-Colorado Springs, voted against it.

Next, the bill faces a hearing in a Senate committee.

Posted in Local on Tuesday, April 27, 2010 12:00 am

The Pueblo Chieftain

http://www.chieftain.com/news/local/article_af2b03ae-51b9-11df-8781-001cc4c03286.html